Well, it feels like it's been a whole week since I've seen you last. I thought we needed a little levity on this episode.

We're going to be diving right into a heavy-duty thinker and some heavy-duty topics. We're going to dive right into philosophy.

And our guide for some of this philosophical conversation is going to be the great medieval thinker

Thomas Aquinas. Now Thomas Aquinas worked on his magnum opus for decades, the summa tealogic.

The best way to translate this would be the highest, the best of theology.

One way would even be to translate it, the best of theology.

One way would even be to translate it the most.

And that might be a fitting description.

This is a massive work that just goes on and on for volumes

and in fact is technically unfinished.

Aquinas never quite finished it before his death.

It's a work that is full of many ideas, but one of the ideas that comes down to us, and this is both in the history of Christianity and even in the history of philosophy.

If you look at philosophy textbooks, you would find references to this.

And this we call Thomas's five ways or the five ways that the existence of God can be proven.

Well let's see if we can work through these. The first way he borrows from Aristotle.

And Aristotle would speak of an unmoved mover.

See Aristotle thought that all of reality one of the things you could know for certain is that

there is motion and in order for there to be motion, there had to be

something that started motion. And for an argument that's a little intense we probably won't

go into, he said you can't just simply have motion going into eternity backwards.

That is, if you look back in time,

you can't have simply motion going all the way back into eternity

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